Change lifecycle status of many objects - Workgroup PDM

Hello,

We have an established WPDM vault containing several thousand objects.

We recently started using Lifecycle to control the release of objects.

I am the administrator of the system and I would like to set the status of a large number of existing objects to Released. These objects were checked in to the vault before the lifecycle was applied.

Is there a way to do this without checking out each object and checking it in again? I can see that taking quite a long time...

I am hoping for an easier, even an automated way.

I look forward to your advice.

Regards,

John

SW2014, SP5

SolidworksWorkgroup Pdm